treehugger.com - 6/6/2009
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Designboom presents cool things from the DMY Design Festival in Berlin. Nominees for the DMY Award include the Idea of a Tree from Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler.
it is a machine that "starts producing when the sun rises and stops when the sun settles down. After sunset, the finished ...
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Tree Art Revisited
Landscape+Urbanism —
... The last one I had to dig a little to get into. At first I thought it was one of those technophilic explanatory pieces that simulated the ecosystem services from a tree in an abstracted mechanistic form. A bit more digging expanded the idea, and it's a pretty cool one, worth a bit of dialogue. Via Treehugger, the 'Idea of a Tree' from Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler for a "...a machine that "starts producing when the sun rises and stops when the sun settles down. After sunset, the finished object can be ‘harvested’." ...
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